Asset Management Division, AM Private Global Credit Management, COO Team, Associate - London

ASSET MANAGEMENT

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions, and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is the firm's investing platform, with over $2.4 trillion of assets under supervision across public and private side investing. Our Private Credit platform is one of the world's largest credit alternatives investing businesses with c$92bn of AUM, a team of 195+ investors and an unmatched global footprint.
COO Team associates work with Private Credit leadership to implement strategic initiatives; manage investing processes alongside other internal stakeholders; engage with external investors; drive technology initiatives designed to increase business efficiency and information sharing; execute processes designed to comply with regulatory and reporting requirements; perform analytics to assess business performance and portfolio condition; and work closely with deal teams on the execution and ongoing monitoring of investments. The associate role will require coordinating these efforts in EMEA alongside of the Global Credit COO and team members in New York and Dallas.
The COO Team is at the locus of a number of workflows and processes. The COO team associate will work closely with stakeholders both within and outside of Private Credit - Private Credit leadership, deal teams located around the world, the Funds and Administration and CFO teams, Engineering, Fundraising, Sustainability & Impact, Credit, Operations and other Control areas of the Firm -- in order to facilitate efficient business processes and operations, provide highest quality information to our investors, ensure compliance with regulatory standards and provide support to Private Credit leadership.
This is a broad-ranging role with a dynamic mandate, depending on the business's needs at any given time.
Responsibilities include:

• Supporting Private Credit leadership: executing on key business priorities; drafting strategy presentations that communicate key messages effectively; implementing reporting processes to enhance Private Credit leadership's ability to monitor the business in real time
• Running portfolio analytics including regular weekly reporting and ad hoc analyses to support business decision-making
• Creating marketing and fundraising materials and other presentations designed to communicate business objectives and capabilities both externally and internally
• Engaging in data capture and validation exercises
• Working with Asset Management Engineering to design, test and implement business planning and workflow technology solutions
• Working with Control side teams to design, implement and execute processes necessary to ensure compliance with regulatory and/or Firm requirements
• Working with Private Credit deal teams and other stakeholders to ensure that investment execution and monitoring are carried out in accordance with required processes
• Coordinating ad hoc requests from across the firm and Private Credit investors
• Coordinating regularly-scheduled Asset Management Credit meetings

Preferred Qualifications:

• Very strong analytical skills and high degree of detail orientation
• Strong writing skills and ability to create engaging, dynamic presentations
• Proactivity; must be a self-starter with deep sense of ownership of work product and ability to drive projects independently
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent multi-tasking abilities and ability to prioritize
• Problem solving nature and ability to operationalize conceptual objectives
• Ability to identify and implement solutions that appropriately balance business needs and a control perspective
• Ability to be responsive outside workday hours (including weekends) given global nature of role and deal timelines
• Prior experience in debt products appreciated but not required

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2021. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity